March Break Advice:Humorous

You know well the advice “Do not speak to a stranger”.  During the March Break, if  any boy approaches you with any of these lines, stay away!    ;  D

Pick-up Lines for Math Geeks and Nerds!

My love for you is like a concave up function because it is always increasing.

How can I know so many hundreds of digits of pi and not the 7 digits of your phone number?

You and I would add up better than a Riemann sum.

Hey baby, what’s your sine?

You fascinate me more than the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.

I am equivalent to the Empty Set when you are not with me.

I can figure out the square root of any number in less than 10 seconds. What? You don’t believe me? Well, then, let’s try it with your phone number.

I’m not being obtuse, but you’re acute girl.

Being without you is like being a metric space in which exists a Cauchy sequence that does not converge

My love for you is a monotonically increasing unbounded function.

You are the solution to my homogeneous system of linear equations.

Your name is Leslie? Look, I can spell your name on my calculator!

If I were a function you would be my asymptote – I always tend towards you.

Your beauty cannot be spanned by a finite basis of vectors.

My love is like an exponential curve. It’s unbounded.

My love for you is like a fractal – it goes on forever.

My love for you is like the derivative of a concave up function because it is always increasing.   We’re going to assume this concave up function resembles x^2 so that slopes is actually increasing.

Honey, you’re sweeter than pi.

My friends told me that I should ask you out because you can’t differentiate. Do you need math help?

Enjoy a well deserved March Break!

Source:http://www.pickuplinesgalore.com/math.html

Canadian National Mathematics League 2009:Results

Congratulations to the following students who wrote the CNML math competition and ranked top within our school in their grade.  The highest score is 40.

Secondary 1 (grade 7)

1st                      Tatjana D.                                      Score 28

2nd                     Valerie H.                                       Score 26

3rd (tied)             Emily S. & Stephanie M.                  Score 25

5th                      Jackie P.-S.                                     Score 23

Gr.7     Team Score = 127 out of 200

Secondary 2 (grade 8  )

1st                      Sabrina N.                                      Score 31

2nd                     Karen B.                                         Score 29

3rd                      Sarah B.                                         Score 28

4th (tied)             Judy F. & Jessica L.                         Score 25

Gr.8    Team Score = 138 out of 200

Congratulations to all the students who scored higher than 15.

A Must Try: Paper Calculator

Before the invention of the calculator, our forefathers had to be inventive when calculating arithmetic problems.

Understanding Math Teacher’s Slang

CLEARLY: I don’t want to write down all the in-between steps.

TRIVIAL: If I have to show you how to do this, you’re in the wrong class.

OBVIOUSLY: I hope you weren’t sleeping when we discussed this earlier, because I refuse to repeat it.

RECALL: I shouldn’t have to tell you this, but for those of you who erase your memory tapes after every test, here it is again.

WITHOUT LOSS OF GENERALITY: I’m not about to do all the possible cases, so I’ll do one and let you figure out the rest.

ONE MAY SHOW: One did, his name was Gauss.

IT IS WELL KNOWN: See “Mathematische Zeitschrift”, vol XXXVI, 1892.

CHECK FOR YOURSELF: This is the boring part of the proof, so you can do it on your own time.

SKETCH OF A PROOF: I couldn’t verify the details, so I’ll break it down into parts I couldn’t prove.

HINT: The hardest of several possible ways to do a proof.

BRUTE FORCE: Four special cases, three counting arguments, two long inductions, and a partridge in a pair tree.

SOFT PROOF: One third less filling (of the page) than your regular proof, but it requires two extra years of course work just to understand the terms.

ELEGANT PROOF: Requires no previous knowledge of the subject, and is less than ten lines long.

SIMILARLY: At least one line of the proof of this case is the same as before.

CANONICAL FORM: 4 out of 5 mathematicians surveyed recommended this as the final form for the answer.

THE FOLLOWING ARE EQUIVALENT: If I say this it means that, and if I say that it means the other thing, and if I say the other thing…

BY A PREVIOUS THEOREM: I don’t remember how it goes (come to think of it, I’m not really sure we did this at all), but if I stated it right, then the rest of this follows.

TWO LINE PROOF: I’ll leave out everything but the conclusion.

BRIEFLY: I’m running out of time, so I’ll just write and talk faster.

LET’S TALK THROUGH IT: I don’t want to write it on the board because I’ll make a mistake.

PROCEED FORMALLY: Manipulate symbols by the rules without any hint of their true meaning.

QUANTIFY: I can’t find anything wrong with your proof except that it won’t work if x is 0.

FINALLY: Only ten more steps to go…

Q.E.D. : T.G.I.F.

PROOF OMITTED: Trust me, it’s true.

Source:http://www.divshare.com/folder/489263-2e6

…and the winners are (drum-roll)…

First prize was won by Amanda I. in grade 11 and the second prize winner was Laura H. in grade 9.  Thank you to all the students who participated in this contest.

There will be more exciting contests coming soon.  So, keep your eyes on the blog.

Math Contest

How clever are you? Check out the contest section.  Can you solve this?

Memory Aids: What to Do.

Here are some good examples of clear and useful memory aids:

Memory Aid: What Not To Do

This memory aid is much too small. Unless you plan on becoming Superwoman between now and the exam, I highly recommend bigger lettering. (Just in case you were wondering, magnifying glasses are not permitted in the exam nor are your parents’ bifocals)

This is not a memory aid. It is a treasure map. The only problem is, you only have 3 hours to write the exam, hunt for treasures and no doubt dig a ditch or two.

Excellent Mathematics

Questions about Studying

1.  What do you think is the most effective way to study for exams?

2.  Do you plan/study in advance, or are you a “last minute” crammer?

3.  Do you make a study/review schedule?

4.  Do you know what material to cover in each subject?

5.  Do you know what kind of exam to expect in each subject?

6.  Do you know how long the exam will be?

7.  Do you regularly redo or revise your notes?

8.  Do you always catch up on work you have missed?

9.  How much study/review time do you need for each subject?

10.  Do leave time in your daily schedule for recreation, leisure, 

      exercise, sleep and  proper meals?

  Why are these even important when studying for exams?

11.  Do you have the best study area at home?

  Have you worked this out during the year?